He was the son of Joseph Adlum (1727-1814) and Catherine Abbott Adlum.
On December 13, 1805 as John Adlum, he married Margaret Adlum at Frederick County, Maryland.
They were the parents of two children.
Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture. During the American Revolution 17-year-old John Adlum joined the Second Company of Colonel Michael Swope's Pennsylvania First Battalion. Captured during the Battle of Fort Washington he was held in New York as a British prisoner of war. He gave his parole not to rejoin the militia and was returned to his home in York, Pennsylvania. He became a surveyor on the Pennsylvania frontier coming to know the Seneca people and their chief Kaiiontwa'kon (by what one plants) or Cornplanter. His diary of observations about the Seneca has been invaluable to researchers and historians. In 1792 he and John Wallis completed a map of Pennsylvania known as the Adlum-Wallis map depicting planned roads and canals as well as those already existing. When a wealthy man he began early experiments with grape production at Swan Harbor Farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland. He served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Provincial army and was later appointed a Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. He and his family moved to the District of Columbia in 1814 where he established 230 acres of grapes known as The Vineyard to continue his viticulture experiments. He wrote two of the earliest books in America on winemaking and its production. He and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 15 years and Jefferson planted clippings of Adlum's vines at Monticello. Adlum is best known for the development of the Catawba, a grape very popular with vineyards in New York and Pennsylvania. The vine, Allegheny fumitory, Adlumia fungosa is named after him.
On December 13, 1805 as John Adlum, he married Margaret Adlum at Frederick County, Maryland.
They were the parents of two children.
Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture. During the American Revolution 17-year-old John Adlum joined the Second Company of Colonel Michael Swope's Pennsylvania First Battalion. Captured during the Battle of Fort Washington he was held in New York as a British prisoner of war. He gave his parole not to rejoin the militia and was returned to his home in York, Pennsylvania. He became a surveyor on the Pennsylvania frontier coming to know the Seneca people and their chief Kaiiontwa'kon (by what one plants) or Cornplanter. His diary of observations about the Seneca has been invaluable to researchers and historians. In 1792 he and John Wallis completed a map of Pennsylvania known as the Adlum-Wallis map depicting planned roads and canals as well as those already existing. When a wealthy man he began early experiments with grape production at Swan Harbor Farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland. He served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Provincial army and was later appointed a Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. He and his family moved to the District of Columbia in 1814 where he established 230 acres of grapes known as The Vineyard to continue his viticulture experiments. He wrote two of the earliest books in America on winemaking and its production. He and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 15 years and Jefferson planted clippings of Adlum's vines at Monticello. Adlum is best known for the development of the Catawba, a grape very popular with vineyards in New York and Pennsylvania. The vine, Allegheny fumitory, Adlumia fungosa is named after him.
He was the son of Joseph Adlum (1727-1814) and Catherine Abbott Adlum.
On December 13, 1805 as John Adlum, he married Margaret Adlum at Frederick County, Maryland.
They were the parents of two children.
Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture. During the American Revolution 17-year-old John Adlum joined the Second Company of Colonel Michael Swope's Pennsylvania First Battalion. Captured during the Battle of Fort Washington he was held in New York as a British prisoner of war. He gave his parole not to rejoin the militia and was returned to his home in York, Pennsylvania. He became a surveyor on the Pennsylvania frontier coming to know the Seneca people and their chief Kaiiontwa'kon (by what one plants) or Cornplanter. His diary of observations about the Seneca has been invaluable to researchers and historians. In 1792 he and John Wallis completed a map of Pennsylvania known as the Adlum-Wallis map depicting planned roads and canals as well as those already existing. When a wealthy man he began early experiments with grape production at Swan Harbor Farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland. He served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Provincial army and was later appointed a Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. He and his family moved to the District of Columbia in 1814 where he established 230 acres of grapes known as The Vineyard to continue his viticulture experiments. He wrote two of the earliest books in America on winemaking and its production. He and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 15 years and Jefferson planted clippings of Adlum's vines at Monticello. Adlum is best known for the development of the Catawba, a grape very popular with vineyards in New York and Pennsylvania. The vine, Allegheny fumitory, Adlumia fungosa is named after him.
On December 13, 1805 as John Adlum, he married Margaret Adlum at Frederick County, Maryland.
They were the parents of two children.
Soldier, Surveyor, Author, Winemaker, often called The Father of Viticulture. During the American Revolution 17-year-old John Adlum joined the Second Company of Colonel Michael Swope's Pennsylvania First Battalion. Captured during the Battle of Fort Washington he was held in New York as a British prisoner of war. He gave his parole not to rejoin the militia and was returned to his home in York, Pennsylvania. He became a surveyor on the Pennsylvania frontier coming to know the Seneca people and their chief Kaiiontwa'kon (by what one plants) or Cornplanter. His diary of observations about the Seneca has been invaluable to researchers and historians. In 1792 he and John Wallis completed a map of Pennsylvania known as the Adlum-Wallis map depicting planned roads and canals as well as those already existing. When a wealthy man he began early experiments with grape production at Swan Harbor Farm in Havre de Grace, Maryland. He served in the War of 1812 as a Major in the Provincial army and was later appointed a Brigadier General in the Pennsylvania militia. He and his family moved to the District of Columbia in 1814 where he established 230 acres of grapes known as The Vineyard to continue his viticulture experiments. He wrote two of the earliest books in America on winemaking and its production. He and Thomas Jefferson corresponded for 15 years and Jefferson planted clippings of Adlum's vines at Monticello. Adlum is best known for the development of the Catawba, a grape very popular with vineyards in New York and Pennsylvania. The vine, Allegheny fumitory, Adlumia fungosa is named after him.
Inscription
Sacred
to the Memory of
MAJOR JOHN ADLUM
a Native of Pennsylvania
and a Soldier of the American Revolution
Who Departed this Life
on the 14th Day of March Anno Domini 1836
in the 77 Year of Age
"He died and he lived an Honest man
the Noblest Work of God"
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